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Friday, July 11, 1986/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports Goodwill Games U.S. women's basketball team crushes Soviets, wins gold MOSCOW (AP) — With Cheryl I Miller again leading the way, and Icheered on by a boisterous flag-wav- ling contingent, the U.S. women’s I basketball team handed the Soviet I Union its first major tournament de- Ifeat in 28 years, 83-60, Thursday I night and won a gold medal at the I Goodwill Games. Miller scored a team-high 18 [points as the United States surged [from a two-point deficit to a 14- | point halftime lead. And — sup- | ported by large group of Americans [doing a stadium-style “wave” at half- [time and chanting “U-S-A, U-S-A” [Miller and her teammates pulled [away in the second half to win the ■ biggest East-West matchup of the I games. The last time the Soviet women’s I national team had lost in major in- I ternational competition was 1958, I against Rulgaria. Other than that, I the only loss for the USSR women in .S iEATS rw f ‘AT NI,Y JAY 9:55 "V JR£5 ioofy 0 TA I ):45 154 games was to the United States in 1957. The basketball gold was the only one for the Americans on the sev enth day of the international sports festival. Athletes from Eastern block countries dominated. Soviet athletes won eight gold medals Thursday to raise their total to 43. The United States has 31, and East Germany has six. The Soviets have 122 medals in all, and the U.S. has 87. A team of Soviet cyclists set a world record in the 4,000-meter pursuit for the second day in a row — their time of four minutes, 12.31 seconds also was good for a gold medal. A Swiss cyclist, Barbara Janz, edged American Melinda Mayfield for the gold medal in the women’s sprint. Mark Gorski, the American gold medalist in the men’s sprint at the ’84 Olympics, advanced to the semi finals when his Soviet opponent, Otar Mchedlishvili, defaulted with an injury. But the U.S. silver med alist in Los Angeles, Nelson Vails, was eliminated by East Germany’s Mikhaehl Hubner. In diving, the women’s spring board gold medal went to another East German, Brita Baldus, with 493.02 points. Tristan Baker of the United States was fourth at 476.64, while U.S. national champion Mich ele Mitchell finished seventh at 461.40. Soviet athletes took gold medals in all four individual events of rhyth mic gymnastics, with an East Ger man sharing the gold with two Sovi ets in the rope event. The best U.S finish was an eighth place for Diane Simpson in the ribbon. But for the Navy Seabees who are stationed at the U.S embassy and the other Americans in the basketball crowd, the United States won the only game that counted. The Soviets moved in front early and led 21-19 with 9:20 remaining in the first half. That is when the Americans went to work. It started getting rebounds, run ning the floor and hitting all kinds of shots, while shutting down the Soviet attack and 7-foot-1% Liliana Semeo- nova. Anne Donovan, the 6-8 U.S cen ter, blocked one of Semoenova’s shots and the Soviet giant scored just four points — and had no rebounds. The U.S. outscored the Soviets 20-4 for a 39-25 half time lead. In the second half, the lead swelled to 26 points and the U-S-A chants became louder. When the fi nal buzzer sounded, Miller was handed an American flag. She draped it over her shoulders and pa raded around court. ‘Red machine’ gears up for title race MONTREAL (AP) — Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose said the Reds have moved from trying to re verse their dismal start to competing for the National League West’s divi sion title. “No question, we’re a contender in the West,” said Rose. “Our best ball is ahead of us. You can see we’re coming. By now, we’re not trying to turn it around, we’ve already turned it around.” On May 17, the Reds, who last year challenged the Los Angeles Dodgers into the last month for the I division pennant, were 5-22 and 10 games out of first place. Fans and the media were screaming for the firing of Rose, a native son and the major leagues’ all-time hit leader. But in their last 54 games heading into Thursday night, Cincinnati was 33-21 (winning their last three and eight of the last 10), putting them five games under .500 and 5'A games behind division leaders San Francisco and Houston. “We’re just getting good starting pitching, good relief pitching, good hitting, it’s a simple as that,” said Reds outfielder Dave Parker. “We struggled in the first half but we picked a good time to put it all to gether. Hopefully, it will carry us into the second half.” The momentum gained strength in Cincinnati’s recent series against the New York Mets. The Reds rapped 45 hits and took three games from the East Division leaders, the first time this season New York has been swept in a series. “When you get 45 hits in three games you can even beat the best team in baseball,” Rose said. “And that is what we did. We’re playing good ball and have a chance to beat anybody.” One player whose fortunes have followed that of the club is Tom Browning. Browning, who improved his re cord to 7-7 with a 11-1 victory over the Mets on Wednesday, started the season 0-4 before he finally beat the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 18. “I’m more aggressive, challenging the hitters,” said Browning who was a 20-game winner last season as a rookie. “I’m just going at them, not trying to get fancy. I just wasn’t pitching my type of ball game earlier in the year. I feel like I’m in the groove now.” Rose said his club still has to continuing its winning pace through its current series with the Montreal Expos and then concentrate on the last half of the year. All-Star Game tickets still available HOUSTON (AP) — The As trodome ticket office will begin selling 2,000 tickets to the All- Star Game at 7 a.m. CDT today, it was announced Thursday. The tickets are from allotments returned by other major league teams and are expected to be sold quickly, making the 57th annual classic a 45,000 sellout, said Rob Matwick, a spokesman for the Houston Astros. The tickets will be sold on a cash-only basis, Matwick said. Surprised Hernandez to start for NL NEW YORK (AP) — Unseating 10-time All Star Steve Garvey from the starting first base position on the National League team for Tuesday night’s game was not easy. And for Keith Hernandez it was also un expected. Hernandez was one of three New York Mets se lected in fan balloting to the starting team for the All Star Game in Houston in results announced Thursday. “I’ve been watching this with quite a bit of interest the last 10 days,” Hernandez. “I don’t want to get into a lot of detail about why, but I am surprised.” Hernandez was one of the players who admitted during last year’s federal drug trials in Pittsburgh to using drugs. He was the only player of 21 censured by Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth for previous drug use to be voted to a starting position on either the NL or American League teams. Hernandez since the trial had been booed in many parks. But his .286 average with six homers and 36 RBI were good enough to get him 995,279 votes, 137,000 more than Garvey, who was the first NL Gooden, Clemens to start for All Stars NEW YORK (AP) — Roger Clem ens of the Boston Red Sox and Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets on Thursday were named to their leagues’ pitching staffs, setting up an anticipated matchup of young, but struggling, pitchers in baseball’s 57th All-Star Game at the Houston Astrodome Tuesday. The American League, which has lost 13 of the last 14 All-Star Games, selected eight pitchers, while the Na tional League chose 10. Clemens, a right-hander who has the most victories in the major leagues this season, was off to a 14-0 start, one victory short of the Ameri can League record, before losing his last two. Gooden, 10-4, who won the 1985 Cy Young Award in the National League, has split his last four deci sions, losing his most recent outing Wednesday, 11-1, to the Cincinnati Reds. The other AL pitchers will be Don Aase of Baltimore, Mike Witt of Cal ifornia, Ken Schrom of Cleveland, Willie Hernandez of Detroit, Ted Higuera of Milwaukee, Dave Rig- hetti of New York and Charlie Hough of Texas. The rest of the NL squad includes Gooden’s teammate Sid Fernandez, Mike Scott and Dave Smith of Hous ton, John Franco of Cincinnati, Mike Krukow of San Francisco, Shane Rawley of Philadelphia, Jeff Rear don of Montreal, Rick Rhoden of Pittsburgh and Fernando Valen zuela of Los Angeles. AMERICAN LEAGUE East Division NATIONAL LEAGUE East Division w L Pet. GB w L Pet. GB Boston 54 29 .651 New York 56 25 .691 — New York 48 38 .558 716 Montreal 46 36 .561 1016 Cleveland 45 37 .549 816 Philadelphia 40 42 .488 17 Baltimore 45 39 .536 10 Chicago 34 46 .425 2116 Toronto 46 41 .529 10 Pittsburgh 34 46 .425 2116 Detroit 41 42 .494 13 St. Louis 34 49 .410 23 Milwaukee 40 42 .488 1316 West Division West Division California 46 37 .554 — Houston 46 39 .541 Texas 45 40 .529 2 San Francisco 46 39 .541 Chicago 38 45 .458 8 San Diego 44 41 .518 2 Kansas City 38 46 .452 816 Atlanta 42 43 .494 4 Minnesota 36 49 .424 11 Cincinnati 38 44 .463 616 Seattle Oakland 36 32 50 55 .419 .368 1116 16 Los Angeles 38 46 .452 7V 2 Late Games Not Included Thursday's Games Late Games Not Included Cleveland 9, Texas 6 Thursday’s Games Toronto 8, Oakland 4 Houston 11, Philadelphia 4 Baltimore 5, Chicago 3 San Francisco 6, Pittsburgh 3 New York 11, Minnesota 1 San Diego 4, St. Louis 3 Detroit at Kansas City, ppd., rain Montreal 8, Cincinnati 6 California at Boston, (n) New York 5, Atlanta 1 Seattle at Milwaukee, (n) Chicago at Los Angeles, (n) ii Advertising in The Battalion is as Good as Gold! 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